SAO PAULO: As the number of dead from coronavirus shot up in Brazil, the popularity of far right President Jair Bolsonaro has remained unchanged. For his supporters, the president has done nothing wrong despite more than 63,000 deaths and 1.5 million infections. Bolsonaro originally dismissed the coronavirus as a “little […]
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GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its account of the early stages of the COVID-19 crisis to say it was alerted by its own office in China, and not by China itself, to the first pneumonia cases in Wuhan. The United Nations health body has been accused by […]
SINGAPORE: Hotels in Singapore may now apply to reopen for staycation bookings, as Singapore resumes more activities under Phase 2 of its post-“circuit breaker” reopening. The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) announced this in an advisory on Friday (Jul 3), saying that hotels will have to comply with various safe management […]
DENVER: Three Colorado police officers were fired and a fourth resigned after they shared photographs they took of themselves re-enacting a chokehold officers used to subdue a black man who later died, authorities said on Friday (Jul 3). Vanessa Wilson, interim chief of police in the Denver suburb of Aurora, […]
ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday (Jul 3) rejected criticism over his willingness to convert Istanbul’s famed Hagia Sophia landmark into a mosque despite international and domestic concern. “Charges against our country over Hagia Sophia are a direct attack on our right to sovereignty,” Erdogan said. Turkey’s highest […]
Governments could use their massive bailouts now to target a more sustainable and equitable society, says Saadia Zahidi. GENEVA: Last year, the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competitiveness Report assessed 141 governments’ future-readiness and found that most rated poorly on this and other crucial long-term indicators. Yet now that the […]
NEW DELHI: China-owned social media app TikTok distanced itself from Beijing after India banned 59 Chinese apps in the country, according to a correspondence seen by Reuters. In a letter to the Indian government dated Jun 28 and seen by Reuters on Friday (Jul 3), TikTok Chief Executive Kevin Mayer […]
SEATTLE: Boeing Co and suppliers set the final number of parts it would need for the 747 jumbo jet programme at least a year ago, signalling the end for a plane that democratised global air travel in the 1970s but fell behind modern twin-engine aircraft, industry sources said on Friday […]
LONDON: European stock markets retreated on Friday (Jul 3), with concerned investors locking in gains made recently on solid US jobs data. In London, the FTSE 100 index had lost 1.3 per cent when trading ended for the day, Frankfurt had slipped by 0.6 per cent and Paris was off […]
LONDON: Oil fell below US$43 a barrel on Friday (Jul 3) as a resurgence of coronavirus cases raised concern that fuel demand growth could stall, although crude was still headed for a weekly gain on lower supply and wider signs of economic recovery. The United States reported more than 55,000 […]